UC SANTA BARBARA
2010 HONORABLE MENTION MID-MAJOR ALL-AMERICAN
2010 BIG WEST CHAMPION - 50 FREESTYLE, 100 FREESTYLE
2010 BIG WEST CHAMPION - 200 MEDLEY RELAY, 400 MEDLEY RELAY
2020 BIG WEST CHAMPION - 200 FREESTYLE RELAY, 400 FREESTYLE
RELAY
2010: Won the league title in the 50 freestyle, touching
the wall in 19.98, a NCAA B-cut...Swam the freestyle leg on the
Gauchos' Big West Champion 200 medley relay (1:28.47) and Big West
Champion 400 medley relay (3:14.74)...Swam the second leg of the
Gauchos' Big West Champion 200 freestyle relay (1:19.71) and the
third leg in the champion 400 freestyle relay (2:57.28)...Won the
consolation heat of the 100 backstroke, taking ninth place in a
time of 51.36...Named the team's Most Improved Swimmer.

2010 BIG WEST CHAMPION - 200 FREESTYLE
RELAY2009: Named one of the team's Scholar-Athletes of
the Year...Member of the Gauchos' Big West Champion and school and
meet-record setting 200 freestyle relay (1:30.89)...Swam exhibition
in the 50 freestyle (20.31) and the 100 freestyle (45.34)...Also
swam in the 200 freestyle preliminaries (1:45.01) at the Big West
Championships.

HIGH SCHOOL
Swam for Hillside Academy and club teams Orinda Aquatics and
Pinole Seals....Also competed in diving...Member of the President's
List...Also earned Academic All-American honors... Attended Contra
Costa College...Member of the Alpha Gamma Sigma Honors Society and
the Dean's List.

PERSONAL
Christopher Peterson was born on Mar. 15, 1990 to parents Edward
and JoAnne...Has two siblings Evan and Elizabeth...His nick name is
"Sunshine"...UCSB academic awards include being on the Dean's List
for engineering and being awarded the Christopher Divis
Scholarship, a College of Engineering Academic Scholastic
Award...Is a member of the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society
and the Golden Key Academic Honor Society...Interests include
piano, guitar, writing music, gymnastics and mountain
biking...Watches "Band of Brothers," and reads "The
Sunflower"...Most memorable athletic achievement is being a part of
the 200 free relay at Big West that broke the school
record...Favorite aspect of college swimming is the intense weight
training...Majoring in mechanical engineering...His personal hero
is his Grandmother.